「国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった」で、島村は北国の温泉街へ向かっていた

'Snow Country' (Yukiguni) is a masterpiece of exceptionally beautiful imagery by Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The opening line, 'The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. The earth lay white under the night sky,' is the most famous in Japan. Shimamura, a writer living in Tokyo, was heading toward a hot spring town in the snowy northern province.